High Director
Company: California Assosiacion of Independent Schools
Location: San Rafael
Posted on: February 25, 2021
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Job Description:
Junior High Director
Marin Montessori School
San Rafael, CA
Start date: July 1, 2021
School & Position Overview:
With 265 students, sought after graduates, over fifty years
educating Bay Area children and teens, and located on two bustling,
beautiful campuses in Corte Madera and San Rafael, Marin Montessori
School is seeking its next Junior High Director to join our vibrant
school community.
A senior administrative position, the Junior High Director works
closely and collaboratively with the faculty, Head of School, and
administrative team. Our shared goal is to continue to cultivate a
highly effective and inspired adolescent learning community, one
that embodies excellent Montessori outcomes: independence,
emotional intelligence, rich curiosity, intellectual aptitude, and
an instinct toward and capacity for collaboration and
compassion.
Marin Montessori School recently completed a $3.5mm capital
campaign and the expansion of our Corte Madera campus, creating a
stunning waterfront and nature-rich elementary wing. Committed to
inclusion, $1mm of MMS's $9mm annual budget is awarded in tuition
assistance every year. As a Green-Ribbon awarded school committed
to making a positive impact on our environment, MMS was proud to
welcome former Vice President Al Gore as the keynote speaker in
2019-2020; he spoke on climate change and youth activism at the
school's annual fundraiser in support of tuition assistance. This
coming spring, chef and food activist Alice Waters will serve as
the keynote speaker.
This is an especially thrilling time to join Marin Montessori
School, a school with recognized accreditations from both AMI
(Association Montessori International) and CAIS (California
Association of Independent Schools). With recent articles in the
Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review touting the
benefits of a Montessori education, along with the knowledge that
students from our Junior High program are thriving and
matriculating to outstanding high schools, Bay Area families are
increasingly interested in making MMS their long-term school. Marin
Montessori is a community of passionate educators, flourishing
students, and engaged and enthusiastic families.
The MMS Junior High:
Situated on a bucolic, semi-rural location in San Rafael, and
including an acre of farmland, animals, and apiaries, the Junior
High serves between 45 and 55 adolescent students every year, from
grades 7-9. Highly interdisciplinary, project-based, and
place-based, the Junior High offers compelling academics (math,
science, humanities), and leadership and creative opportunities
such that the students remain tremendously engaged in their
studies, happy to come to school, and curious and self-aware.
Alumni matriculate well-prepared to a variety of excellent high
schools. MMS graduates are known to be inquisitive, engaged
learners who are highly self-possessed, kind, confident, and
socially and emotionally intelligent.
Position Summary:
The Junior High Director ensures outstanding teaching and learning
in each class offering-characterized by interdisciplinary,
experiential, social-emotional, and project and place-based
learning. The Director leads the cultivation of an inclusive and
safe community culture and generates and sustains trust in and
enthusiasm for MMS with current and prospective families.
Montessori Background:
MMS is committed to authentic Montessori education. If the ideal
candidate is not Montessori trained, they will need a depth of
passion for and experience with interdisciplinary, experiential
education and adolescents, as well as an interest in and commitment
to the further study of Montessori adolescent pedagogy. Regardless,
all candidates will need a successful track record of significant,
meaningful administration and leadership experience.
Key Responsibilities:
--- Ensure faculty have the tools and skills required to deliver
the highest quality learning experience for students
--- Support continued cross-curricular programming opportunities,
weaving robust academic learning with land-based experiences and
projects on our acre farm, gardens, and apiary
--- Take an active interest in parent perceptions, questions, and
concerns. Proactively address these with the goals of positive
parent relationships and faculty's trust and agency
--- Support Admissions in attracting, admitting, and retaining
mission-appropriate families and students
--- Manage operations at the Junior High, including but not limited
to Learning Support Services, schedule, Creative Expression, and
Physical Education specialists, and class offerings
--- Serve as a pedagogical ambassador: In writing and speech
communicate effectively the value and rationale of a Montessori
adolescent education in the 21st century
--- Ensure students are well prepared for high school and support
students, families, teachers, and the High School Placement
Consultant in the high school admissions process
--- Work closely with the Head of School in planning and executing
strategic initiatives
--- Supervise Assistant Administrator
Required Experience and Temperament:
--- Rich experience teaching and working closely with young
adolescents and their families
--- Experience observing, successfully coaching, and evaluating
teachers toward continued growth
--- Experience successfully leading teams
--- Experience successfully developing and managing program-level
budgets
--- Ability to prioritize and calmly manage multiple tasks within a
variety of demands
--- Passion for and experience with interdisciplinary,
experiential, place-based educational models
--- Even-keeled, mature, responsive temperament to model steadiness
for the highly energetic adolescent community, busy faculty, and
sometimes anxious parents
--- Highly ethical and honest
--- Discretion and candor, and unquestionable ability to maintain
confidentiality and act professionally and with integrity
--- Supervisory experience
--- Growth mindset: a love of brainstorming ideas, collaborating,
learning through feedback, always striving for excellence and
growth
Required Qualifications:
At least three years in recent school administration/leadership
Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree
Certificate of Completion of the AMI/NAMTA Orientation to
Adolescent Studies
The successful candidate will be:
High Functioning
--- Skillful in managing the multi-faceted, fluid needs of the
day-to-day operations, along with other administrative and
long-term strategic visioning, planning, and implementation
needs
--- Highly organized, detail-oriented, punctual, and with a
demonstrated track record of independently and calmly managing and
meeting deadlines
--- Fully reliable: does what they say, and says what they do
--- Superlative writer, discussion facilitator, and public
speaker
High Integrity
--- Inspires self and others to continually strive for excellence,
possessing the vision, empathy, and humor needed to make the hard
work energizing and unifying
--- Maturely self-possessed and self-aware: doing what is right for
the school and students is key source of satisfaction (rather than
adoration from or popularity with students, faculty, or
families)
--- Direct communicator: eschews gossip, triangulating, and
"venting," and models direct, compassionate, forward-looking
communication and problem solving
--- Internal locus of control: takes full responsibility and
actively and resiliently strives to affect positive change,
regardless of the level of challenge; resonates with the motto,
"Don't blame the world; find a solution"
--- Rock solid inner-ethical compass and core; habitually
honest
High Warmth
--- Infectious enthusiasm for education, and for the foibles, fun
and potentials of young adolescents
--- Compassionate and patient with parental anxieties, without
over-indulging entitled parental behaviors
--- Exceptionally positive interpersonal and communication skills,
including mature conflict resolution capacities, a generally
optimistic attitude, and a strong capacity to create warm
connections with others
--- Emotionally intelligent with the ability to convey a
non-anxious presence and access both vulnerability and strong,
decisive leadership to connect and inspire
--- Transparent with motivations and thinking. Confident, not
arrogant. Humble, not meek. Inclusive and kind to all
High Process-Oriented
--- Skillful in collaborating with colleagues through inclusive,
thoughtful, and consistent processes, while also knowing when their
decisiveness is called for-even should the decisions be
unpopular
--- Systems thinker: can identify root causes of challenges and
smart strategies for creating systemic improvements and
solutions
--- Powerfully "growth mindset" oriented in all they do
Salary and Hours:
This is an exempt, full-time administrative position. The start
date is July 2021. The salary and benefits package is very
competitive.
How to Apply:
This search is being led by CalWest Educators Placement. To be
fully considered for this opening, upload your resume and cover
letter here:
https://calwestlogin.com/apply.
If you are a current CalWest Candidate, you do not need to
re-apply. Instead, please notify CalWest of your interest, via an
email to: mysearch@CalWestEducators.com.
Marin Montessori School is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of age,
ancestry, color, religious creed, denial of Family and Medical Care
Leave, disability (mental and physical), marital, familial or
parental status, medical condition, genetic information, military
and Veteran status, national origin (including language use
restrictions), race, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth,
breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy,
childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender
expression, political affiliation or sexual orientation.
CAIS is an organization of approximately 200elementary, middle and
secondary schools in California. The Association serves and
strengthens its schools by:
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